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Ironically, I'm thinking about going out to buy a Macbook Pro tonight... I have intentions of using it for multimedia purposes, so it's a no-brainer to go with the MAC for me. Luckily, Best Buy has some decent financing right now...

Being an equal fan of literature and film, The Road falls into the: "Oh please dear God do not screw this film up" category. That book is still the best book I've read in the last five years or so (The Story of Edgar Sawtelle came close)...

This is one of those stories where you get a bit of a lump in your throat as you're watching the survivors talk on the news - the one guy they interviewed on CNN was talking about how he easily could have been one of those tragedies where a young person with a loving family is killed and it all comes to a halt, and to be alive and realize the value of what you have, etc... It also sounds like this pilot should be put up for sainthood... guy remained calm, followed procedure, and was the last one off the plane... you think there's 155 families grateful for that man?

I was just going to say the same thing... although Kim shows up later in the season (not a spoiler, this has been promoted)... so we could have two awful storylines...

So now, I have gone skydiving... I might hesitate to use one of those suits off a cliff, but I'd love to try one while jumping at 10,000 feet...

At the very end you see the guys pull a parachute, so that's how they land.... These base jumpers are crazy to begin with, so I'm sure trying it with a flight suit is nothing to them. Actually, if you think about it, jumping with that suit has to be safer because you get more resistance and it allows you to get further away from the object you jump from, quicker... That whole buzzing the road thing though and getting inches from the rocks... that's crazy...

Saw Changeling last night... between that and Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood had a very, very good year...

I agree. I suddenly want to do that.

Benjamin Button was good, but could have been a lot better. The acting and the technical side of the the film were brilliant, but I agree with whoever said that the pacing of the aging seemed disjointed... I thought all of the supporting characters and story lines (Tilda Swinton, Captain Mike, Queenie and her man, the Bushman, etc.) were all more enjoyable interactions than when it was just Pitt and Blanchette. By degrees, I saw Gran Torino the next day and thought: Benjamin Button is the better technical film, but I actually enjoyed Gran Torino more. And then I saw Nothing but the Truth the next day and actually, that was right up there with both films. As for true 2008 films, two of my favorite films were indies: Shotgun Stories (probably my favorite movie I saw last year) and Ballast. 4 months, three weeks, two days is also excellent... The Fall I enjoyed but saw some areas for improvement... The Wrestler was pretty great, although I wished they had stopped the handheld back-of-the-head shot much sooner than they did at the beginning... Big stuff: I enjoyed Dark Knight, Ironman, Didn't enjoy: all the stuff my wife made me see...

I appeared in episode 4 of the web series Nikolai and the Sheik: http://www.youtube.com/user/cheaplittlefilms Without giving away the ending, the series finale (episode 8 or 9) includes a humorous tribute to the Tommy Westphall deal...

As much as I love bacon, no one could pay me enough to try chocolate-covered bacon...

Bacon is amazing. I personally love wrapping chicken and beef with Bacon. Or as I like to call it: meat wrapped meat. Take that PETA...

I think people are forgetting a key element to yesterday's Rule 5 draft... We lost Lou Palsmo - alas, our catching woahs are not solvdd...

I think people dock Griffey for his injuries and that, had he not had them, he would have likely been the greatest offensive talent baseball has ever seen. Even with the injuries and the lost time, the guy is still an absolute lock...

The obvious rival to the bad fast food thread... I give my personal award to the amazing Baconator: http://www.wendys.com/foo...sp?family=1&product=4

I have been substantially underwhelmed by what I've heard so far....

How'd you like to be the other two couples on the page... you're either excited or like CRAP!, this is my moment... foiled again by Douglas Davis!

Really liking what I see out of Luc M-M, cautiously optimistic at the 2-2 start... it's still very, very early...

Count me as one who doesn't like it. Maybe it will take some getting used to... I thought the old design was easier to navigate... this seems too busy for me. I'm sure I'll get used to it...

I have no problem with it. Whose expectations were higher than the sun and whose chest-thumping rang like gongs? Not the NL Central team that will still be competing in a playoff Game 4 tomorrow. you're right... even if we lose tomorrow, here is the only thing that would matter: Cubs eliminated October 4 Brewers eliminated October 5 It would be even better though if we could WIN!!!

The karma police are preventing me from commenting on the Cubbies... we still have a game tomorrow...

Did John Smoltz just say "for yous of those..."?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJStzRuSFLY

This is reposted from my MySpace blog. This sucks: Paul Newman People shouldn't idolize celebrities. And yet I have on two occasions. I have to admit, because of the profession that I aspire to (film), I have let myself put certain actors on a pedestal. To follow their work and to say "man, that's the right way to do it, that's the way to make this happen." But mine, for my age and generation, may have been a bit unconventional. The first was Jimmy Stewart. The second was Paul Newman. For whatever reason - and we can psychoanalyze it another time - I was always drawn as a kid to older movies. I spent a lot of time on Saturday and Sunday afternoons hunkered down in a dark room watching AMC (American Movie Classics) and TCM (Turner Classic Movies). And, whenever people say things like I'm about to say, I usually scoff and say "well, what the hell does that mean?" But I can honestly say that the first time I saw Cool Hand Luke something changed in me a bit. A switch was flipped and things were different. I'm fairly certain that I have watched Cool Hand Luke more than any other film ever made. And it rests entirely on the shoulders of Paul Newman. For my money he gives what is the greatest individual acting performance ever put down on film. And it's not just that film - I could list countless performances here that can't even be sniffed by many of today's actors. His performance in The Verdict is, arguably, as good as Cool Hand Luke. If you haven't seen Nobody's Fool it is an amazing and wonderful film - probably one of the best representations of small town America put on film, even if its tongue is planted firmly in its cheek at times. And even more recent/modern films - Road to Perdition, Hudsucker Proxy, prove that he was a great, cross-generation talent. As a teenager The Long Hot Summer was the first love story on film that ever appealed to me, but even then it had Newman's trademark antihero spin on it. That movie - with his wife Joanne Woodward and the great Orson Welles - is also high up there on my most-viewed list. And get real - does it get any better than Paul Newman going toe-to-toe with Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott in The Hustler? No, it doesn't, despite what studios try to push on you today with the likes of Clooney, Pitt and Damon appearing in the same films. With due respect, of course... But Paul Newman cut his chops in an era where Hollywood still had to rely on this little thing called character development to create film. Plot and suspense relied on what the characters did - not what blew up, not who was naked, and not what computer-animated calamity occurred. Towering Inferno aside... And that doesn't even begin to touch on his charity work. This guy was a giver on Bill Gates levels. He took the good fortune that was bestowed upon him and gave it back to the community through his Hole in the Wall Gang and his salad dressings, popcorn, etc. His philanthropy is unsurpassed in Hollywood. So maybe its not so bad to idolize someone who made it filthy rich and then gave so much back. I think that makes him hero-worthy. So, I remember where I was when Jimmy Stewart died. I was in my car after a long day at work. Turning left from HWY F onto HWY O. I imagine I'll remember this morning similarly. The film industry lost one today the likes of which it will never see again. RIP Bill

He went on to threaten some unspecified retaliation against Martinez and then went on a totally lame rant against Martinez - how he has done nothing in the game, etc. Sheffield needs to realize no one care about him...